[MartynSinclair]

@SM @ 16:57 – I stand corrected, but sadly, we have still moved our meetings to Europe for tomorrow & Weds…

Next time, please find the solution slightly quicker 🙂

Hope your luggage has turned up… BA by chance ??

[KarlMarx]

@SM @ 16:57 – I stand corrected, but sadly, we have still moved our meetings to Europe for tomorrow & Weds…

Sad to hear that the would be strikers can now work and not lose pay, whilst businessmen have the inconvenience of changing arrangements, probably at extra cost.

[1nfrequent]

Not sure why you’re crediting Boris Johnson with anything, SM. He’s been remarkably quiet during all this – no doubt planning his exit strategy for the 2015 election so he can assume his challenge to the Tory leadership in 2016.

It’s definitely good news that it’s been suspended but the fact that it’s been suspended rather than abandoned means the so and sos have left it open to pull another 72 hour strike later on. I suspect the reason for the suspension now is because the 3 numpties running for the leadership have collectively realised what a kicking they’re taking in the court of public opinion – many commuters suspecting that they just wanted a 1 day week.

The irony is, I support their desire to keep ticket offices open but I hate the way they’ve gone about trying to resolve it.

1F

[SergeantMajor]

I haven’t credited Boris with anything. There is an impostor in our midst – check the “handle” spelling carefully….

[Charles-P]

I would suggest this cancellation has more to do with the lack of impact of the previous one. Although there was some inconvenience nowhere near as much as the RMT would have hoped for. No public support, no real change to the future plans, members lose two days money. What is the point ?

[DavidGordon10]

SergeantMajor (with your correct spelling) – I think you should stop using “lefty” as a term of abuse. I decided not to complain when you used it in a thread about the (daft) idea to close LCY, but this is one time too far.

We have a range of political opinions: mine are clearly well to the “left” of yours – but to use “lefty” as an insult is just as inapproriate as it would be for me to be abusive about those who hold political opinions to the right of mine.

The irony is, of course, that the RMT are not demonstrating any kind of left-wing or socialist principles. They are behaving as pure monopolists, and monopoly is a typical tool of the capitalist.

[SergeantMajor]

It’s not intended as a term of abuse. It’s just a fact.

The RMT is currently in the middle of an internecine war over the corpse of Bob Crow; these strikes are all about establishing credibility prior to a vote for the leadership.

They are about (union) power, and have little to do with protecting jobs or the people the unionistas purport to represent.

Yet again BigDog. proven wrong in his assessment:

“BigDog. – 29/04/2014 15:29 GMT

@SergeantMajor – 17/04/2014 15:01 GMT
….No they won’t… (Strike)
….Certain to be abandoned or at least reduced….

Unfortunately SM regardless of your back peddling, yet again you called it totally incorrectly. Best stick to advising on BA sales.”

Yet again I called it correctly.

[DavidGordon10]

“It’s not intended as a term of abuse”

As you write it, you make it sound as though you believe it to be a derogatory term – so you may say you don’t intend it as a term of abuse, but that is not how it comes across to lefties like me.

“It’s just a fact.”

No, it is not – as I made clear in my post, there is nothing “lefty”, left-wing or socialist in what the RMT is doing. Of course it is all about union power and about the leadership election.

One of my great-grandfathers was one of the founders of the National Union of Railwaymen and he is turning in his grave at what is now being done in the name of trade unions.

[SergentMajor]

Lefty is not a term of abuse, it applies to

1 – Communists (well, it is a free world)
2 – People who do not fly on British Airways, the universe’s favourite and best carrier
3 – People, like me, who do not travel with the lower classes and turn left on boarding

[SergeantMajor]

Well, I’m pleased you and I see eye to eye on the issue of how the union movement, which is necessary and can be a positive force, has been co-opted by those with less than idealistic intentions.

However, by fair means of foul, the Left is funded by the Unions, and Unions and the Left associate each other with their outlook.

Until Miliband and his cronies disassociate themselves from such activities, they are implicitly bound up together.

[DavidGordon10]

Oh dear, we descend into inanity (the real “Sergeant Major’s” word) again. That fake handle needs to be investigated: is it the real SM in another guise?

I don’t fly on BA much: it does not serve the routes I need. My fellow-passengers on SAS, LH, KLM and many others would not recognise themseves as “lefties”, they would not know what you are going on about. It is certainly uncritical to describe BA as “the universe’s favourite and best carrier”

The people in economy are not the “lower classes”. They are people. The choice of class and carrier should be made according to the purpose of the journey, the budget available and similar factors and not according to vapid notions of “leftiness” or “lower class”.

My forty or so flights so far in 2014 have been on at least eight different carriers and in all three classes, ranging from F on LH long-haul to economy in Turkish long-haul. Most of the flights have been fine: some have been very good: only one or two have been a disappointment.

[travelworld2]

and, whilst the tube strike (or lack thereof) is undoubtedly a proper topic for this forum, I don’t think that the comments on left and right wings of the British political spectrum are…

(although the fake SM is quite funny…)

[DavidGordon10]

I agree, this is a travel forum and politics should be kept out of it. No politically-driven terms of abuse please. And choice of language always matters – “cronies” sounds pretty abusive to me.

[1nfrequent]

“I haven’t credited Boris with anything. There is an impostor in our midst – check the “handle” spelling carefully….”

SergeantMajor – I apologise. I hadn’t realised that there was a poster here who had managed to plumb new depths of infantile behaviour, even by the at times woeful standards of the forum.

1F

[SergeantMajor]

Quite all right, 1nfrequent.

Some of the behaviour is infantile indeed.

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